Snow White, Disney, DeSantis linked; Big Sugar blame; bathroom, Biden baloney | Letters

Why aren't sugar culprits named when discussion pollution?

The multimillion-dollar East Fork Creek Storm Water Treatment Area project you reported on April 12 is tokenism of the highest order. Who knows, maybe it was lobbied for by U.S. Sugar.

The real problem — the elephant in the room, as they say — are the thousands of tons of phosphate and nitrate fertilizers applied to a half million acres of sugar cane produced by U.S. Sugar and Florida Crystals that continuously backwash into and seriously pollute Lake Okeechobee after thousands of cubic feet of lake water are applied to the fields to “wash in” the fertilizer.

The cane field ash falling into the lake following huge cane field burns is another gigantic "elephant in the room” pollution problem that goes unaddressed by politicians in Florida."The county found there were problems with nitrogen and phosphorus in particular coming through East Fork Creek (which flows into Manatee Pocket),” said Mike Yustin, senior project manager for the county Ecosystem Division, in your story.

Nice, huh?

Paul Vallier, Stuart

Biden lives in global warming fantasy world

When asked why the Chinese weren’t doing more to combat global warming, President Xi Jinping declared they could not be divorced from reality. So, issues, problems and proposed solutions had to fit in that space.

Apparently, President Joe Biden doesn’t subscribe to that view. Instead, he believes he can arbitrarily and capriciously simply declare that vehicular emissions reductions can be reduced by executive fiat. To do this, simply pick a date and select any number or value that reductions should be reduced to.

It’s OK to ignore the economic impacts, the infrastructure concerns, the environmental effects of EV battery construction and disposal, and a host of other matters. Evidently, it’s also no problem to concern oneself with the legality of acting like a third-rate dictator rather than the president. The fact that, even if done, the effort will have approximately zero impact on global warming may also be ignored.

That troublesome reality thing doesn’t apply in President Biden’s fantasy world.

Robert Miller, Vero Beach

Super seniors victimized by landlords

Why have elderly residents been forced to vacate their homes, removing all the contents, under the guise that their apartments would be remodeled?

A promise of three weeks has become two months for residents of a complex I know of in Vero Beach. Residents have been told that the company (which has received funding in part through the Section 515 Rural Rental Housing program) has “run out of money”!

As stated on the complex's website: Very low, low and moderate income families, elderly persons, and persons with disabilities are eligible to live at this property.

Some of these residents are upwards of 87 years old, and have no idea when or if they will be able to move back into their homes. They have no voice in this unfair and unconscionable situation they find themselves in.

Virginia Pope, Vero Beach

Have you heard anyone utter this phrase lately?

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Melissa Reynolds, Vero Beach

Stop victimizing women by allowing men to 'change' sex

Why is it always the women who have to fight for their human rights while the men just go merrily on their way, doing what they always do?

Men can say they’re women all they want, but they’re not. They have too many missing parts to be female, and too many male parts to be taken seriously. So put on your dress, if you wish, and go play with the big boys. Stay out of girls sports they fought so hard to get, and stay out of their bathrooms!

You are what a medical doctor put on your birth certificate. So deal with it!

Since when did school teachers have medical degrees to make medical decisions for children?

Maybe we really do need a war, big depression or a famine to stop all the nutty acting out and thinking everyone has time for today.

Joan Hall, Vero Beach

Could this be real reason DeSantis is so upset with Disney?

Why is Gov. Ron DeSantis so upset with Disney's mice, ducks, dogs, Mulan, Winnie the Pooh and others?

I believe Gov. DeSantis "woke" up, and realized that Snow White is living with seven males, and she is not married.

Ronald D. Roberts, Sebastian

Boys going into girls bathrooms: a new issue?

I wonder about the viewpoints of Rep. Webster Barnaby, R-Deltona, as related in an article written by Jim Saunders on the front page April 12.

My wife asked me a question I would like Barnaby or any other of his proud religious conservative followers to answer.

What is a father of a young girl or mother of a young boy to do if one of their children has to use the bathroom? Should the child ask a stranger of the same sex as the child to accompany the child to the bathroom?

We who live on this planet choose to be what we are. Although Barnaby did apologize about calling transgenders "demons," what led him to say that in the first place?

Barnaby should use his ability to talk about important bills that most folks who live among us really care about.

Dave Follett, Vero Beach

Censorship causes serious loss to Americans

I looked at my small statues of David and Venus de Milo. Do I now need a fig leaf for David and a shawl to cover Venus?

What about my books? What do I do about classics like "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"?

Apparently there are people who think David is "indecent." They don't want anyone to read books they don't like.

I wonder if they have every seen the beautiful statues or pictures found in a museum. Have they experienced a world that opens to people using a library?

Some politicians are enacting policies that lower public knowledge and public standards at a serious loss to Americans.

Ruth Sullivan, Vero Beach 

DeSantis, minions actually make Florida far less 'free'

Gov. Ron DeSantis has this sound bite he uses all the time: the “Free State of Florida.”

I cannot buy into that. His administration is certainly the most authoritarian in the country.

Centralize health decisions and take them away from the people. Governments closest to their communities know what is best for their populations. So what do you get? Thousands of excess deaths.

Limit the free press. Like them or not, having multiple press agencies is a good thing. Shutting out all but those that will parrot what you want, such as talking only to Fox, does not sound very American; it sounds a bit like TASS.

Limit what people learn. This is a classic propaganda management system. Let’s burn books we don’t like (even people who have never even read the material can block them). Yeah, Rosa Parks didn’t exist because someone might get upset if they learned of her plight.

As a good Republican friend of business, let’s pick a fight and punish the state’s largest employer because it has an opinion that doesn’t match the governor's. And what is his visceral fear of gays, lesbians, transsexuals? None of those choices are for me, but I have friends and relations that have family members in all those categories.

None of those children were taught or, as the governor says, “groomed.” Until they dealt with their identities, everyone suffered from mental strains and anguish. The governor implying that these orientations are lifestyle choices is foolish, insulting and 40 years out of date.

I don’t understand his fear of sexual orientation differences at all. To paraphrase Lady MacBeth: Me thinks thou doth protest too much.

Florida is not free. It is a centralized government run by one man and his carefully selected yes men and women.

David Hunter, Vero Beach

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